Arrangement for severing single pieces from a bar of butter.



E. JAGENBERG. ARRANGEMENT FOR SEVERING SINGLE PIECES FROM A BAR OF BUTTER.

- APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10, 1914.

Patented Mar. 23, 1915.

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E.JAGENBERG. SBVERING SINGLE PIECES FROM A BAR OF BUTTER.

ARRANGEMENT FOR I APPLIGATION FILED MAR.10, 1914.

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Paijented Mai. 23; 1915.

EMIL JAG-ENBERG, 0F DUSSELDORF, GERMANY.

ARRANGEMENT FOB, SEVERING SINGLE PIECES FROM A BAR OF BUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 23, 1915.

Application filed March 10, 1914. Serial No. 823,674.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, EMIL JAGENBERG, manufacturer, a subject of the German Emperor, and residing at 107 Himmelgeisterstrass'e, Dusseldorf, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Arrangements for Severing Single Pieces from a Bar of Butter, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to an arrangement for severing single pieces of butter from a bar of butter. The arrangement employs the known cutting wire in such a manner, that each piece of butter immediately after it has been severed from the bar, is removed and conveyed to the wrapping mechanism. Thereby a positive removing of the severed pieces of butter from the bar is obtained, which was not the case when, as hitherto customary, the severed pieces were advanced to a certain distance remaining behind each other, as then, particularly when the butter was soft, the pieces would easily again stick together, so that their removal became more difiicult. The arrangement according to the present inven tion furthermore works in such-a manner, that the piece of butter severed is quickly removed from the intermittently advanced bar ofbutter immediately after the cutting member has been moved down for the severing operation, the cutting member then rises somewhat slower advancing in the direction of the feed, and the bar of butter is advanced still slower. The three parts thus move, after the severing operation, simultaneously and in such a manner, that they are instantly separated from each other, so that they will not obstruct each other, and a very rapid working can be obtained.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is 'a side elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 is a plan. Fig. 3 isa side elevation of the sever ng arrangement. Fig. 4.-'is a front elevation thereof, Fig. 5 is a slde elevation of the severing arrangement in another operative position and Fig. 6 a plan ofpart of Fig. 5.

On the well moistened conveyerband a,

-which runs over the rollers a a the bar .of

butter 6 is intermittently advanced up to the vertically reciprocating slide 03. The intermittentmotion of the conveyer band 1s produced by means of the pawl a which en-. gages in'the ratchet wheel 0; and is rocked to and fro by the lever a operated by. a cam,

the said lever a? coupled by a rod m te the are guided at e in thebody of the machine I are coupled below by a cross bar 79 to which t are fitted to arms t, which project through By the rotation of the shafts t the guides t fork d straddling the shaft 0 and a roller d b This slide caring against a cam disk.

d rises by the operation of the bar (i which moves downward, when the bar of butter 12 meets the slide, and immediately the cutting wire begins to move down. The wire f is held taut between the arms 9 which are fitted to the shaft c journaled in the arms it. On this shaft is further fitted a lever is, the free end of which is linked by means of a pink to a slotted bar m, which is pressed by action of a spring and a pin it in the slot m against a stationary column 0. The arms k are fitted to the rods orlifters p which are displaceably fitted in the frame 6. The frame 6 stands on the main body 6 of the machine and through the same frame 6 runs the conveyer belta. The rods p, which a lever 1' is linked, which is j ournaled at r in the body of the machine. To the lever 1' it fitted a roller r which bears against a cam diskffitted on the shaft 0. To the arms h" is secured a strap 8, by which the stroke of the lever is projecting through it is limited. When thus the cutting wire f is moved downward by the downward stroke of the bars p, it severs a piece of butter from the bar.. As soon as the wire has reached the conveyer belt, two plate grippers t seize the piece of butter cut off, push it quickly away from the bar ,of butter and move it to the wrapping mechanism. These gripper plates guides 27 and are at their ends secured by means of pins i pivotally to a slide t To the slide 6* sliding in guides t alongside of the conveyer belt, is fitted a link i 'naled on the body of the machine. other arm of this crank bears a roller t which rides on a cam disk fitted to shaft 0. The guides t are pivotally fitted to the arms t which are fitted to vertical revoluble shafts 25 These shafts have below arms 25 to the ends of which rollers t are fitted,

which ride' on cam disks on the shaft 0.

and with them the gripper-plates approach each other, and bear against the piece of v which is coupled to a bell-crank t jour- The butter which has been cut oif. Then the slide t and, with it the grippers advance and take the piece of butter into the wrapping mechanism, which may be of any of the known kinds. Then the arms i are rocked back and thereby the gripper plates are moved apart and back again by means of the lever 6". -At the same time with the advance of the gripper plates the bars 19 .rise again and the bar of butter is again advanced by the conveyor band being advanced by the pawl a lVhen the bars p move upward, the column 0 will hold'back the bar m owing to the friction caused by the spring pressure, so that the lever 70 is turned on its pin k until it strikes against the underside of the strap 8. The cutting wire will thus be first advanced a little in the direction of the feed of the bar of butter and then only upward, as now the lever is abutting against the strap .9 will push the bar m upward along the pin 11. overcoming the friction. The arms 9 are thus raised in an oblique position until the pin a has reached below the slot m When then, at the next cutting operation, the arms 72. move downward again, the bar m will be held back until the lever k strikes above against the strap a and thus the arms 9 are again in a vertical position. In this position the bar m is then again drawn so that the cutting wire moves downward in a vertical line. These movements of the grippers t, the wire f and the bar of butter 6 are so dimensioned, that they occur at a graduated velocity as hereinbefore described. Thereby it is obtained, that these parts are imme-' diately separated from each other and return without any loss of time into their respec-tive positions for the next operations. Thus a very rapid working is enabled by this arrangement.

To the strap .9 is further fitted a set screw scribing witnesses.

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a serving as the upper stop for the lever 70. By means of this screw-the length of the piece of butter to be out fafl may be easily regulated, as by its adjustment the cutting wire may be made to move vertically down ward at a position which is eithermore to the one or more to the other side. In the one instance shorter, in the other instance longer pieces ofbutter will be cut ofi.

I claim:

1. Arrangement for severing single pieces from a bar of butter by means of a-cutting wire comprising means for quickly removing the severed piece, immediately after the severing operation from the bar of butter and conducting it to the wrapping mechanism, means for rocking the cutting wire at a slightly smaller velocity in the direction of the feed and then raising it, and means for advancing the bar of butter at a still smaller velocity.

2. 'A butter cutting apparatus, comprising a feed apron adapted to receive a bar of butter, a slide adapted to arrest said bar, a reciprocable and oscillable wire, adapted to sever-a piece of butter from the bar, and means for feeding said severed piece away from the bar. 7

8. In a butter cutting device, a cutter, an oscillable arm carrying said cutter, a reciprocable member to which the arm is pivoted, a strap secured to said member, a lever secured to the arm and adapted to en gage the strap, a spring-influenced bar linked to the lever, and an abutment adapted to be frictionally engaged by said bar.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two sub- EMTL JAGENBERG. [Ls] Witnesses:

ALBERT Norman, HELEN NUJEER. 

